Posted on 10/10/2006 9:45:46 PM PDT by freedom44
Dispicable, in any case.
Arab Muslims. Arabs are 2% of Irans population.
/Dispicable --- DESPICABLE -- my spelling is terrible when I'm tired.
Don't read too much into it. The Iranian dictatorship is considered by the vast majority of the Iranian populace as fundamentality Arab in culture even though they're ethnic Persians.
Thanks.
Ping. Interesting that the article doesn't bring up the fact that the regime 'themselves' are 'Arabic' in culture, even though they're Persians they embrace an Arabic ideology, culture, mentality instead of a Persian one.
I must disagree with your conclusion that the Iranian leadership is Arabic in culture. The official language of Iran is Persian and they do not consider themselves to be Arabs. Islam is obviously an Arabic influence, but the Persians distinguish themselves from Arabs just like the Turks and other non-Muslim Arabs. Iran has strained relations with Saudi Arabia and other Arab governments in the region. The Iranians are certainly Islamic fanatics, but they are Persian Islamic fanatics.
The average Iranian in the streets considers the dictatorship to be too 'Arabic' in culture, they may speak Persian/Farsi but they aren't Persians in culture. The regime does not embrace Iran's history or culture, they embrace an Arabized version which is post-Arab Invasion. Most Persians admire the pre-600 A.D. era when there was the Persian Empire - Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes, etc. Something shunned by the current regime.
Aren't they the same ones that forcibly converted the Persians, then followers of Rastafarianism (sp), to Islam, in the seventh century? I say so much the better, let the ROP continue killing each other, they won't have time to kill us.. Isn't that the Roach Motel theory?
"they embrace an Arabic ideology, culture, mentality instead of a Persian one."
Islam is not an "Arabic ideology." At least not any more than Christianity is a "Hebrew ideology" or Buddhism is an "Indian ideology".
Arab is an ethnic group like Persian is... both are mostly Muslims and have the same culture(religion more than history or race defines culture...even in a more secular west). And didn't Mohammad begin his campaign by killing and terrorizing Arabs themselves? And a lot of so called Arabs aren't Arabs by ethnicity, but Arab by language and culture.
I don't think the ancient Persians were Rastafarians :D No Rastas back in those days, mon. :))
They were Zoroastrian.
That is interesting. I have spoken to Iranian Persians who admire ancient Persian culture as you described. I have never met any of the mullahs though, so what you posted makes sense.
No Rastas in Persia mon, that be Jamacia mon'.
You must be very young.
No, you have it wrong. The Persian muslims in Iran are Shiite, and have always had a dislike for the Arab Wahhbi's who they consider "lovers of the anus" from the time of Ali.
They shun it because its superior in every way the to house of crap they built.
Wow .. that's just too bad. I'm fresh out of pity for arabs or muslims.
"Aren't they the same ones that forcibly converted the Persians, then followers of Rastafarianism (sp), to Islam, in the seventh century?"
LOL. That's hysterical! I'm trying to picture it. LOL.
Rastafarianism was started in Jamaica in like the 1930's and reveres Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
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